Nice.
I find it somewhat mirth-provoking to consider that much of this kerfuffle
about the image my choice of language forced them to experience comes from
people who consider David Lynch an artist, and think that the images he created
in Eraserhead and Blue Velvet were art.
From: anartax...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]
FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 4:15 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Human Reactivity and Conditioned Behaviour
Human reactivity to things humans say and do is often a strange mix of
conditioned behaviour and delusional thinking and delusional interpretation of
perception. We seem to have a vary fallible ability to distinguish a person's
real intent when they perform an action or just say something. Images that in
everyday life might seem abhorrent could be put to use, e.g., in comedy where
they do not serve their apparently literal purpose, but serve to shift the
mind's point of view in an unanticipated way. In the life mind these things can
have a virtual life illustrating some point, while in actual living, they would
be things that one would not do or promote. Because of our hard wiring and
conditioning, certain images can make us squirm, and in the real world these
things really do happen and cause deep distress for some.
But here on FFL supposedly we are more self aware of our limitations and self-
generated delusions. The problem with spiritual 'development' is it is a method
or methods to reduce these limitations and internal fantasies, but is often
mistaken for truth. Truth, in a very peculiar sense, is the result of this
spiritual activity, not the path by which it is achieved, because the path
functions on the level of the delusions we have and share.
The universe allows the darkest things we can image about human behaviour,
there is no rule that prevents these things. When we make up rules to deal with
such things, it is because we cannot handle them emotionally and because these
things disrupt civilisation. But there is a distinction between the mental
representation of these and the actuality of these, because a mental
representation may never need manifest as physical behaviour, it can be free
floating in the mind. It can also be expressed verbally or in print as fiction,
such as in a novel or short story, or in a philosophical discussion, where it
does not serve the purpose it would were it an actual fact.
The whole purpose of the so-called spiritual life is to separate fiction from
fact, but if you are on a spiritual path, that has not been accomplished yet,
for you will still fall prey to misinterpretation. Only when the path ends, and
the spiritual life really begins can our most crippling delusions be dealt
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